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Easy Bake Scrumptious Wholemeal Bread

This is what I bake when my teenager stays over at friends!!! It's a real treat! Nice texture, rich and nutty... and a doddle to bake!

Have a look - it's got photographs - I want to try and get as many people baking as possible (it saves money and you know what you're eating... and, it's fun!!)... not to get political but I think we've become deskilled as a nation as I meet young people all the time who never even consider baking bread themselves... they think you have to buy it at the shop!!!!!

Re: Easy Bake Scrumptious Wholemeal Bread

Hi,I've only just joined and have just come across your post - I am loving this forum already!I've never made bread before as I've always been too scared (!) but will try this for sure - thanks!Quick question - is corn oil readily available in the UK (I'm in West Sussex) if not, is there an alternative oil I can use (rapeseed/olive oil) ?Cheers,

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Blueladder , That recipe shown looks like it has baked quite a heavy loaf , try reducing some of the whole meal flour and adding a bit of white bread flour to it keeping the quantity the same and you will get a lighter loaf with little difference to the flavour.

CostalKid , yes, you can buy cornoil , if it were me I would use sunflour oil instead.

Re: Easy Bake Scrumptious Wholemeal Bread

CoastalKid wrote:

Hi,I've only just joined and have just come across your post - I am loving this forum already!I've never made bread before as I've always been too scared (!) but will try this for sure - thanks!Quick question - is corn oil readily available in the UK (I'm in West Sussex) if not, is there an alternative oil I can use (rapeseed/olive oil) ?Cheers,

Use an oil that doesn't have flavor, so not olive oil. You can read about canola/rapeseed oil and decide for yourself if that product is right for you. I refuse to use it. I use cold-pressed organic safflour oil, it's quite nice.

mummza, I haven't tried this particular recipe, but I used to make a 100% whole grain bread/no knead that was great, not heavy at all.

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And I'll weigh in on the other side and say rapeseed would be my choice as it's our home-grown oil in the UK. But really for a bread recipe, any oil will do, or any fat for that matter. All it does is soften the crumb slightly, improving the texture.

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Wow! Thanks for all your comments!!!!! And I'm really pleased if it gives anybody that bit of extra confidence to start baking!!! Enjoy!

I tried mixing white flour but the recipe didn't work quite as well - I would have had to change the recipe (amount of water?) a little bit.

With the oil I tried all sorts and only used corn oil by accident when my olive oil ran out - my son loved it (and it makes much nicer chips than olive oil too... crispy!!) so that's all I use now for my bread. If I can keep the quality and save a few extra pennies I'm all for that!

It makes a lovely moist loaf and I like the texture... it's also great for toast. But bread is very personal... I do this because it's easy and I'm very busy and I know it works - but if I had more time I'd experiment with lots more recipes.

Am going to try and make a Stollen and put that up... costed the ingredients and gas and it's half the price of the shop bought ones (and that's using all luxury ingredients!!!

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I really do love this forum and cannot believe it's taken me so long to join!! I can see I'm going to learn a lot which is fab Thank you all for sharing your knowledge and recipes (can't wait to see the Stollen Blueladder...bring it on!!Happy cooking all

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